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| ICWSM | |
|---|---|
| Name | ICWSM |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Academic conference |
| Frequency | Annual |
| First | 2007 |
| Discipline | Social media analysis |
ICWSM The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is an annual scholarly meeting that brings together researchers from computer science, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Princeton University and other institutions to discuss social media, online communities, natural language processing, and network analysis. The conference attracts participants from industry labs such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Twitter and research groups at University of Oxford, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley. ICWSM sessions commonly feature work intersecting methods developed at places like MIT Media Lab, Bell Labs, SRI International, Yahoo! Research and datasets studied by teams from Stanford Network Analysis Project, Google Brain and Facebook AI Research.
ICWSM is an interdisciplinary venue linking topics investigated at ACL, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW Conference, SIGIR and ICML with applied case studies from organizations such as The New York Times, BBC, Wired (magazine), The Guardian, NPR and Reuters. The conference emphasizes methods related to work produced by groups at Microsoft Research Cambridge, DeepMind, Adobe Research, Apple Inc., Amazon and laboratories affiliated with ETH Zurich, Max Planck Society and CNRS. Attendees include academics from Yale University, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Washington and practitioners from LinkedIn, Snap Inc., Pinterest and Uber.
ICWSM originated amid growing interest following seminal efforts by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Michigan, Rutgers University and Indiana University to study blogs and early social networks alongside projects led by Paul Resnick, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec and teams at Yahoo! Research. Early meetings featured contributions connected to initiatives at DARPA, NSF, European Research Council and collaborations with Stanford WebBase, Internet Archive and Wayback Machine projects. Over time the conference evolved, absorbing advances from communities involved with Google Scholar, Scopus, arXiv, ACM and IEEE publication practices and aligning with methodological shifts seen in work by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and research groups at OpenAI.
ICWSM covers computational studies related to platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit (website), Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, WeChat and LinkedIn. Research topics intersect areas explored at EMNLP, COLING, ICASSP, UAI and AAAI, including sentiment analysis influenced by studies from Stanford Sentiment Treebank, misinformation work comparable to investigations by FactCheck.org, polarization analyses similar to projects at Pew Research Center and network diffusion modeling in the style of Watts-Strogatz model and papers from Albert-László Barabási. The conference also addresses privacy and ethics themes discussed in venues like USENIX Security Symposium, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and policy debates involving European Union and United States Congress.
ICWSM is organized by program committees drawn from faculty at University of Toronto, University of California, Los Angeles, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Brown University and includes representatives from corporate partners such as Google Research, Meta Platforms, Inc., Microsoft Research, IBM Research and Amazon Web Services. Funding and sponsorships have historically involved organizations including National Science Foundation, European Commission, Google, Facebook, Adobe Systems and nonprofit entities like The Alan Turing Institute and Computational Social Science societies.
Past ICWSM papers have advanced methodologies connected to influential work by Eytan Bakshy, Duncan Watts, Jure Leskovec, Sinan Aral, Clifford Lampe, Eric Gilbert, Tamar Mitts and others, contributing to debates seen in journals like Nature, Science, PNAS and Journal of Machine Learning Research. Contributions include influential datasets comparable to Enron email dataset studies, algorithmic innovations related to PageRank, community-detection techniques inspired by Girvan–Newman algorithm and influential models for information diffusion resembling work by Leskovec, Kleinberg and Watts. ICWSM papers have also informed policy reports produced for European Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Ofcom and non-profits such as Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The conference community overlaps with networks of authors who publish at ACL, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW Conference, SIGCHI and ICWSM Workshop Series contributors from institutions including University of Maryland, University of California, San Diego, Michigan State University and international partners from University of Tokyo, Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne. ICWSM has influenced products and services developed at Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and startups incubated by Y Combinator and accelerated by Techstars, and has informed regulatory discussions involving European Commission, UK Parliament and United States Congress.
ICWSM proceedings are typically published by the organizing committee and distributed through digital libraries and preprint servers similar to ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore and arXiv with metadata indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus and CrossRef. The conference uses peer review processes comparable to those at ACL and KDD and has experimented with open-review models similar to platforms used by OpenReview.net and reproducibility initiatives championed by groups at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and Mozilla Science Lab.
Category:Academic conferences